Point to ponder: security measures taken at a corporation’s home offices are meaningless when neither employees nor facility management have any respect for the process. In the case of a particular entrance to a particular site, people regularly piggyback in behind each other, never swiping their cards against the reader. How effective a security measure is that? It’s crazy enough to make one issue a strongly worded email to the security dept. Dickweeds. WDTDBHOK!

Posted: March 31st, 2004 under General.
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Aaaaww! Kids and dogs….What did WC Fields say about kids and dogs? Well, who cares anyway. Cute is as Cute does.

Posted: March 26th, 2004 under General.
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From the Beeb comes word that THE LIFE OF BRIAN will be re-released in theatres next month.

Now look: NO ONE is to stone ANYONE until I blow this whistle, do you understand?? Even- - and I want to make this perfectly clear- - even if they DO say “Jehovah”!

Posted: March 25th, 2004 under General.
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Maybe it’s not a smoking gun, but the evidence continues to mount that corn and its many incarnations, including high fructose corn sweeteners, are wreaking havoc on our bodies, the environment, and the world economy.

Posted: March 25th, 2004 under General.
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A review of Mel Gibson’s movie by Linda Schulte-sasse.

“To empathize, we must “know” a character (which is why news of two local teens in a car crash stirs us more than a disaster that takes hundreds in Bangladesh). How can we know a Jesus who’s barely recognizable a half-hour into the film, who’s on screen only to be flogged, kicked, and bloodied to the point where there’s really no place to go — although the film never tires of escalating horrific images.

Gibson’s “Passion” can scarcely move us because it is all effect and almost no cause; it economizes radically on background, character, and motivation to indulge an extravagant enactment of torture. This relentless exhibition takes over and substitutes trauma for emotional involvement, not to mention transcendence.”

Posted: March 24th, 2004 under General.
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Go read TrishWilson for by far the funniest headline I read all week about the remake “Dawn of the Dead” overtaking “Passion of the Christ”.

Umm, how about THE ZOMBIES??

Good idea, O Lord!

Posted: March 23rd, 2004 under General.
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I went into this blogging thing strictly for my own amusement and my own edification. I’ve known that from day one. I’ve also known that whatever I might create here is not likely to make even a ripple in the great sea that is the blogosphere, so I’d better be content with being solitarily amused and edified.

That said, I will admit that I’ve scanned the rankings in NZ Bear’s ecosystem with envy and yearning. Oh, to be more than a lowly [albeit Crunchy] Crustacean! Ahhh, if I could only rise to Slimy Mollusk….or even- - dare I say it?: Slithering Reptile, life would be worthwhile. I’ve noticed that all the highest ranks in the ecosystem seem to be the exclusive province of pundits, warbloggers and political bloggers in general. I guess I also realized that most of those bloggers are male, but I haven’t thought much about that fact. I have neither the interest nor the insight for political commentary. What I write is usually anything but political, or at least, not political in the same sense as these high-ranking blogs are political.

Comes word today via Trish Wilson that apparently there has been a discussion raging throughout the blogosphere in recent weeks on the topic “Where are all the women bloggers?”

Where indeed. Wherever I’ve been, I didn’t know how invisible I apparently am. So, now I’m gonna go to my invisible fortress of solitude and think about all of this.

Posted: March 22nd, 2004 under General.
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I just love Out of the Frying Pan. I don’t even remember anymore how I first stumbled across it. Pretty much all I know about the writer is that she is: a thoughtful person, located in Longmont, CO, and Catholic. Also, I think she and I are approximately the same age. Whatever; she consistently has perceptive, witty log entries and wonderful links! Like this example of extremely good advice.

Posted: March 19th, 2004 under General.
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Jeez, was this recipe ever hideous! We ended up throwing out at least half of the salmon. Note to self: Never spend $17 on wild-caught salmon, then put a totally untried new glaze/marinade on it. J’accuse Dr. Lark! Bleccchhhhh!!

Posted: March 16th, 2004 under General.
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For quite a while now I have felt myself pulling away from my church. By that I mean I’ve not only been distancing myself from St. Andrew Lutheran, but also from the Christian church in general. This essay has helped clarify my thought processes, even tho the writer is mainly trying to assuage doubt and help women feel good about remaining in the Catholic church. She does this by giving an overview of women’s status in Roman, Greek, Egyptian, and Hebrew societies, and comparing and contrasting Jesus’ teachings and the Christian church’s historically patriarchal stance. In other words: Forget that all denominations of Christianity have considered women 2nd class citizens from the very beginning of the church- -Don’t blame Jesus!
Personally, I have an increasingly strong feeling that the right thing for me to do is to reject any organized religion whose standard operating procedures include the devaluation and dehumanization of women.
I have yet to decide if I’ll exempt Jesus from that rejection.

Posted: March 15th, 2004 under General.
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